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HOW TO MAKE LIGHTSABERS 2.0
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Kevin_Sabersmith
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Dec '07
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Date Posted:
1/7 11:35am
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RE: HOW TO MAKE LIGHTSABERS 2.0
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Gimp is also free, and very easy to use, plus you have much more control over the specifics of the blade
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dutchboyjr
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2/6 12:02pm
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RE: HOW TO MAKE LIGHTSABERS 2.0
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bgii_2000
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Just found this place:
http://dragonplate.com/ecart/product.asp?pID=690&cID=42
I bought some. Will review.
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Evil-Henchman
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3/9 2:11pm
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bgii_2000 posted:
Just found this place:
http://dragonplate.com/ecart/product.asp?pID=690&cID=42
I bought some. Will review.
Yikes! I already bought from them. The carbon fiber tubes broke after 1 or 2 hits. Sorry man. I even posted pics and reviews of them in this thread. I tried 2 different diameters. The larger tube had a thicker wall. Both tubes split open after a few hits. Here is a pic of the smaller diameter tube after it split open.
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bgii_2000
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3/11 5:47pm
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You didn't tape them, for one thing. Plus there's another dude in that same thread who says his worked fine. Maybe yours were a bad batch. Maybe not. The worse that could happen is me being out 30 bucks.
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Evil-Henchman
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bgii_2000 posted:
You didn't tape them, for one thing. Plus there's another dude in that same thread who says his worked fine. Maybe yours were a bad batch. Maybe not. The worse that could happen is me being out 30 bucks.
Well, I think the main issue was that they didn't have the metal weave around them like the Randomsabers' ones have. However the thicker tube broke after a few hits where as my polycarbonate tubes last years. I'd rather have something that lasts longer even if it is thicker and has some minor whip to it.
I also have some Randomsabers carbon fiber "blades" and have hit them together pretty hard. So far, no breakage.
I hope you have better luck with your Dragonplate carbon fiber tubes than I did with mine.
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Obi-Bob78
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4/1 2:45pm
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How do you rotoscope a lightsaber duel in AE? Everything that I've seen is about how to rotoscope a single lightsaber. Do you have to go through the entire video once, render it, then go through it again for the other saber? Or is there a more simple way?
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Funk-E
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4/2 8:33am
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Don't render, just do each lightsaber on its own separate comp. It doesn't matter which one is on top, either.
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Obi-Bob78
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Funk-E posted:
Don't render, just do each lightsaber on its own separate comp. It doesn't matter which one is on top, either.
Not exactly sure what you mean here...
I think you mean that you have two clips of the footage, one on top and one on below. And then you would rotoscope both seperately? But then the bottom lightsaber would be covered by the top footage..so that can't be what you mean.
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Funk-E
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4/2 3:59pm
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Okay: Do one lightsaber as normal. Then do the other, in a separate composition. Then just screen/whatever your two lightsabers on top of eachother.
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Obi-Bob78
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4/3 3:00am
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Funk-E posted:
Okay: Do one lightsaber as normal. Then do the other, in a separate composition. Then just screen/whatever your two lightsabers on top of eachother.
Okay, gotcha..I think lol.
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CrudeSwordsman
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6/8 6:50pm
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this is my dumbest question
i'm trying to find out if after you paint your carbon fiber blade with the color you want, how am i going to wrap the blade with shrink wrap/heat shrink and what kind of wrap to buy?
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bgii_2000
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6/13 12:41pm
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I just used bright orange gaffer's tape.
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LORDWROTH
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6/26 5:10pm
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I just used bright orange gaffer's tape.
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thats what we do, I mean its the easiest way and the best to clean up , plus you want to have multiple shafts on set anyway just in case one bends during filming, The fiber rods are
better in some ways, but when you can't afford them or just need something right now I go with steel rods from the local metal shops and bore and tap holes to keep them in place with a lock screw. it's worked for two of my films. But yeah, colored gaffers tape really does the trick and you can order it in red, green and blue, plus! under the right light it already glows alittle, 
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-Spiff-
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Date Posted:
6/26 6:58pm
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Just my opinion, but I recommend green tape over orange tape for the chroma-sub-sampling advantage green offers. I also recommend staggering black and white lines down the blades, which tend to help when chroma information disappears in motion blurred saber blades.
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